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With Sync Solved, Dropbox Squares Off With Apple's iCloud
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Houston can tell the story of his service with any number of creatively mixed metaphors — proof he's still stage testing the simplest way to tell people what Dropbox does and how it got to be so big. Ferdowsi, though, is better at recalling all the stuff that went down behind the scenes because he still exists there. Houston has become the voice of the company — something he had been rehearsing for on his Phi Delta Theta roof years earlier — while Ferdowsi bounces from meeting to meeting, firmly planted on the engineering side.
They're working to move Dropbox forward, which is tricky when Dropbox's success can be largely attributed to the fact that it's pretty feature free. It was launched in the Fall of 2008 as what we're now calling a "lean startup" — a basic service sent out to the masses to be stage tested and tweaked on the go. The enthusiasm for the release was startling. It started with a simple box that users could drop their stuff into so people can access their music, pictures, and documents online and at every connected workstation.
The plan was always to add more features. When early requests revolved around the ability to turn any folder on your computer into a Dropbox folder, the founders resisted. "That sounds like a cool idea but it's really hard to pull off in a way that's easy for people to understand," explains Ferdowsi, who established his status as the gatekeeper of Dropbox's engineering pragmatism early on. "You can imagine installing Dropbox on a home computer and then installing it at work and then all of a sudden your work documents get merged with home documents." So the founders resisted.
One reason they decided to keep it simple was that people had a hard time understanding even the simplest parts of their service. Just a few months after their initial launch, the Dropbox team decided to conduct its own usability tests. They dragged a mic — usually clamped to some piece of office music equipment — into their conference room and had people they'd recruited from Craigslist try out the program. On a connected computer stationed in another room they anxiously watched what went down. "The whole team sat there as people bumbled their way through the installation process," says Houston. "They couldn't even get the damn thing on the computer. For everyone in the room, it was an extremely painful experience."
It was a tough moment for the team, but it just ended up confirming what they'd learned from their own experiences: Simplicity is key.
The founders' vision for Dropbox was that it work so quickly and seamlessly and without fanfare that the user barely notice it at all. If your computer rejects software because it's not compatible, the service is not working for you. When files go missing after an upload, the service is not working for you. When your computer slows to process a request, the software responsible is not working for you. Sync programs before had all floundered because they didn't nail one or all of the above. Dropbox learned from the mistakes of others. "What we've always wanted to do is keep finding ways to make Dropbox easier to use," says Ferdowsi.
To accomplish this, Dropbox needed to be on every computer. So when it jumped out of beta and into the mainstream, Houston and Ferdowsi added a Linux client to the existing Mac and Windows version. It may seem an obvious move to net most users, but scores of companies before then had been deterred. The reason is that cross-platform integration is a bitch. Benjamin Pierce, who attempted it for his own sync software, offers a tiny example of the conflicting system slog that starts the moment you hit save. When you save, a record of that action is logged in seconds. But there's a catch. Macs will note the save the second you ask it to, but PCs are only accurate to every other second. "So now imagine trying to write a program that is checking whether the file has the same modification time on all the machines that it lives on," explains Pierce. "You have to realize, wait a minute, this is a Windows machine, so I shouldn't be checking if it's the same modification time, I should be checking whether it's within two seconds."
What makes the process tougher is that obstacles like these are not documented in some Kindle-available book called Cross-Platform 101; issues are uncovered only when engineers smack into them. "This sounds kind of stupid and trivial, and any particular example like this is, but the point is that there are a huge number of these things," says Pierce. Dropbox was dedicated to the discovery.
But cross platform wasn't just an error-prone landmine on the backend, it also needed to be visually consistent on screen. When someone installs Dropbox, the founders wanted it to look as if the service were baked into the operating system from the beginning. Windows and Linux made this easy with an API that allows programmers to integrate in their own icons. Apple, on the other hand, made it obvious — even to their own MobileMe team — that they didn't really want anyone mucking around in their Finder.
MobileMe's failure to integrate turned out to be an issue that ultimately buried it. E-mail outages and sluggish syncing plagued the service. Its sidelined status within the Apple was such a widely regarded misstep that even Steve Jobs admitted, "it wasn't our finest hour."
Dropbox didn't let Apple's resistance to play with others deter them, and eventually they were able to hack their way in. Sure, Dropbox didn't need a highlighting system in the Finder. They didn't need everything to look the same cross platform, either. But to do both meant a cohesive package without asking the user to take any leap in understanding.
It was with that goal in mind that they approached every roadblock — even the ones covered in decades of dissertations and published papers. As every computer scientist in this space will attest, when two people are working on the same document, syncing the versions can get thorny. What happens when tweaks made in tandem force two versions of the same file to disagree? Dropbox decided to handle conflicts like this: If two people update the same file at the same time, Dropbox kicks one version below the other for the user to deal with. The founders knew that losing work would be a deal breaker for most users. They didn't want to lose any data ever, and with this solution, they hadn't.
You could almost hear the forehead slapping when Unison's Pierce describes how intuitive Dropbox's solution is: "I think that's probably a very clever decision on their part because that kind of conflict for most people is rare. And then you haven't bothered to make people learn something in order to use the tool. You can just use the tool and be happy." There's no special alert to bother the user or software-controlled choice between copies, which could erase work. The action that Dropbox requires by a human — a decision about what version to accept — makes for about as little an intrusion as they come.
Dropbox also chipped away at seconds in the same methodical they tackled the problems before it. If everything just works, there should be no aggravated finger tapping as we wait for filed to upload. They were always wary of an XDrive repeat pushing away users, so they spent hours upon hours in their first few years training the service to work faster.
One thing they did was engineer the service to tread lightly on bandwidth and on the computer's operating system — sending as few updates as possible across the client-server divide — which shaves seconds and computing cycles. They do it with a sort of CSI-type approach. The program takes a numerical fingerprint of everything in the folder. If something shifts within a file — something's moved or renamed or even a single letter changes — Dropbox compares the new fingerprint to the old one. "In the event that you have a large Photoshop file and you make one change, Dropbox picks out the part of the file that changes and just uploads that," explains Ferdowsi. "The OS will tell you that one file got deleted and another got added, but we were smarter in noticing that the file is already there."
They were also smarter about handling the distance between computer and server. Instead of that one-box-at-a-time, cross-country haul of programs past, Dropbox created a custom protocol that bundles and compresses files into groups, sending them over in batches. "The protocol was designed differently from what everyone else was doing," says Ferdowsi. Moving items efficiently shaves seconds from the server to client call — the foundation of their business.
They've also taken a load off their servers by trimming them of unnecessary excess. Throw the new Beyoncé single into your Dropbox and the service will upload the song once. But say 1,000 other users are digging the same track, instead of weighing down the back end with lots of repeats, Dropbox practices deduplication. An algorithm sniffs out copies and kicks the extras from the system so they're only storing one version of a file. This is just one glimpse into a reorganized back end, which doesn't just replicate the tree of files on your computer; it splits up and thins out the data to make it easier to retrieve.
But as the service matured, more users trusting it to sync swiftly and securely, they needed to unburden their servers and the users' operating systems. Instead letting the program work to sniff out changes, Dropbox made the changes come to them. The move slashed a ton of time and computing energy. "If you want Dropbox to be pretty responsive, we would probably be checking at least every minute. I guess that would be thousands of times per day per client," explains Ferdowsi, which adds up to a lot of unnecessary bandwidth. The change to a fully event-driven system, by Ferdowsi's back-of-the-envelope calculation, sped up the service by three orders of magnitude.
"I guess we're all sort of very obsessed with milliseconds everywhere," says Ferdowsi, matter of factly. By pulling together a lot of little things, trimming any excesses, and making sure all the solutions were glued together in a way that puts the user first, Dropbox discovered a broad audience. But now that they've captured the attention of millions, the key is to figure out how to hold onto it.
Both Houston and Ferdowsi bristle at the notion that they might have solved the data-sync problem. They're proud of their service, and they know it works well, but there's still a lot more they want to do.
To move forward, they're bringing on new engineers like crazy — expecting to jump from 70 to 200 people on staff by the end of next year. It means their current top-floor Market Street digs are crowded with giant glowing monitors, but not for long. They plan to move to a new space in San Francisco's China Basin at the start of the new year. To top it all off, they've also just gained $250 million of series B funding led by Index Ventures, an impressive amount that will no doubt help with the expansion.
But really, you get the feeling that they're ramping up quickly in preparation for a nasty fight. And with iCloud, Apple's thrown the first major punch. Sure, Apple has stumbled in the space before, but now with a few more years of development under its belt, they're in a good position to snatch the "it just works" catch phrase right from the Dropbox founders' mouths.
There are others gunning for Dropbox, too. A slew of similar start-ups hope to take a slice of their market share, and a Google release, Houston worries, could lure away a significant chunk of users.
In the meantime, Dropbox is trying to make their appeal even stronger. A new feature roll out early in the Spring to make sharing files even easier. With just a link, a gallery of photos will open up in its own webpage. People will no longer have to sign up for the service to access content sent to them by registered Dropbox users.
They also hope to move beyond folders. Eventually Dropbox will automatically split photos into albums based on camera type and event time — something like what iPhoto already does photos dumped from camera to computer. The goal is to save the time users spend organizing their Dropbox into a hierarchy of folders. Automatic uploads, something iCloud is already doing, is also on their list of to dos.
And even further in the future, they hope to expand the pool of devices that can talk to each other — basically eliminating your computer as the middle man. A point-and-shoot, they think, could ship pictures directly to your television and family for big-screen viewing — even before you board the flight back home. "Soon you'll walk into a Best Buy or Fry's and you'll see that little box everywhere," says Houston. "This is the first time I will see my photos or play my music in my living room and it's not going to be a science project."
The more devices with a little box on them, Dropbox hopes, the harder it will be for others to catch up. But it's a gamble. They're gearing up for a massive feature add when the service has so long worked for people because it's stayed simple.
The competition is right on their tail. May the best solution win.
Photo: Arash Ferdowsi and Drew Houston. Courtesy DropBox
Drawings: Hand-drawn artwork seen around Dropbox. Courtesy Dropbox


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Fujifilm has a new take on an old model, and it seems to be a fun and funky mix of modern tech and classic retro style. The Fujifilm X30 is the successor to the X20 and the latest iteration of the X-series compact camera, and it includes a Real Time Viewfinder Fujifilm calls "the largest, brightest, fastest and highest resolving viewfinder in its class."
To back up that claim, the Real Time Viewfinder offers 0.65x magnification and alleged display lag time of 0.005 seconds. Also thrown in for good measure is a 12-megapixel 2/3-inch X-Trans CMOS II sensor with a phase-detection focus system that offers focus in 0.06 seconds, as well as shutter lag of 0.015 seconds.
An EXR Processor II is also included, as is a 3-inch tilting LCD monitor with 920k-dot resolution. Battery life is reportedly longer than with the X20, enabling up to 470 photos to be taken on a full charge. The X30 is Wi-Fi compatible, and comes with an application that allows photographers to control the shutter action via their smartphones or tablets.
Yet another addition comes by way of a new feature called "Classic Chrome" film simulation, which is essentially a compilation of 11 modes -- or filters -- that reproduce old school aesthetics commonly associated with traditional Fujifilm. This includes modes like reversal film effects, professional color negative, SEPIA, and a smattering of monochrome filters.
The X30 will be available in the U.S. in late September, starting at around $600.
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Köp Game Girl här!
New blog launched!
I am blogging as a TOP BLOGGER at http://finest.se/gamegirl in English.
Also check out http://www.definedby.com
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Nu tar jag nya tag med bloggen och gör den bättre än någonsin andra gången om!
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I'm loving it!
Från och med 30 april bloggar jag från finest.se/gamegirl !!!
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Radio1 (med Cissi Wallin & Julia Skott)
Pascalidou i P1 (med Alexandra Pascalidou, Margareta Strömstedt & Martin Ezpeleta)
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DefinedBy (Game Girl writer in residence i Tyskland under Fotbolls VM!) juli 2011
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Game Girl goes to the World Cup in Germany
International City Blogging Project
Project definition
The basic idea of the project is to transfer the historical principle of a writer-in-residence into the presence. During the FIFA Women's World Cup, the city of Augsburg will be one of the host cities and venue for the preliminary matches of England, Equatorial Guinea, Japan, Korea DPR, Norway and Sweden (Sara Starkström a.k.a. Game Girl). Artists will be invited from each of these countries to live in Augsburg for up to two weeks and in turn share their gathered inspiration and input with the locals.
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Hello, I have 4 container tomato plants. They are planted in a box that is 8 feet wide by 16 inches high although the 4 plants are relatively close to each other in the box. I fertilized them when they were transplanted and then added tomato fertilizer sticks once they bore fruit. I believe that I may have been overwatering them based on some bad advice from a friend :) I only water them now when the soil is dry 2 inches down but that still seems to be about every morning unless mother nature has intervened. The first fruit that I saw is now 1.5 or so inches big but hasn't gotten any bigger in weeks. The plants continue to produce tiny tomatoes but nothing is happening as far as growing the first/largest tomatoes. Help? :) I searched this forum and think they may be root bound but they are in a fairly large container. Should I spread them out? Do they need their own individual containers? Before moving them around I would love some advice. TIA! |
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What varieties are they? That is what determines the size of the fruit, it's variety genetics. So they may already be full size and just waiting to ripen. That takes about 6 weeks. Beyond that then plants grown in containers normally produce smaller fruit than when grown in ground. And plants grown in overcrowded conditions do the same. Plus plants in containers require regular feeding - like weekly - and liquids work much better than any granular or fertilizer sticks will. Lots to learn about how to grow them in containers as it is a totally different method. Your container is 8 feet wide by what? What is its length? Dave |
Thank you! I'm so sorry, I requested an e-mail when I received a response and it didn't show up. It's pretty easy to overload with information on the internet. I will start fertilizing regularly with a liquid. Is there one that you recommend? The container is 4 feet by 8 feet but the four plants are sharing about 2/3 of that space. I could easily give them more space but am afraid that their roots might be interwoven and I would damage them by trying to pull them apart. They are a Baby Boomer Hybrid meant for container growing. they may have reached their full size, then, and just aren't ripening. I'm very new to this although you probably already know that :) What can I do to encourage the fruit to ripen? Thank you very much!! |
According to the write-up these are 1" red cherry tomatoes which only reach a height of 25" max. They are an early variety, (Days to maturity around 50, from when you planted them). So. Your tomatoes won't get any bigger, but they should turn red, once they reach 1" in size. I think you will just have to be patient, and none of us is very patient when it comes to waiting for our tomatoes to ripen (LOL). Linda |
Just as the variety genetics determine the size they also determine when the fruit ripens. There really isn't anything you can do to force it to speed up. Patience is required. Baby Boomer is a determinate cherry variety so the size they are is what you get (approx. 1" in diameter and weighing approx. 1 oz. each). It is a average of 6 weeks between fruit set and ripening though when over-crowded like this it may take a bit longer. Next year consider better spacing. try for 2' between plants. As for liquid fertilizer, there are literally 100s of them. Everything from Miracle Grow to one of the fish and kelp blends. It is your choice depending on what is available to you locally. Dave Dave |
Thank you! I will pick up some fertilizer tonight. They have reached the 1" size and have been holding for ~3 weeks. It's great to know that 6 weeks or even more is usual. I have NO patience :) Basil has been it for me in the past and it offers such a quick and ample reward. This will be a great lesson. Thanks again for the help! |
The container is 4 feet by 8 feet but the four plants are sharing about 2/3 of that space. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% And you've also mentioned the container is 16" deep. Four plants are sharing 2/3 of it : ((32)* 2/ 3)/4 = 5.33 cu-ft per plant THAT IS MORE THAN NECESSARY. So you should not worry about root bounding and perhaps you can get by much less watering that you are doing now. |
Thank you Seysonn! I've been very concerned about overcrowding them :) |
I've grown tomatoes in containers and found that they are much smaller than if grown in the ground. I suspect there is a limited root system in the pots. With that being said, the tomatoes still tasted very good, they were just small. If you didn't break the rootball when transplanting them into the larger pot, you might want to take a yard stick (or something of similar size) and poke into the soil to help the roots expand. |
Thanks everyone! Patience was key and I really didn't have to be patient for long. Some of them are starting to turn red. I appreciate all of the help! I didn't break the root ball when transplanting, thanks for the advice. I would have been afraid to do something like that without help :) |
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ABC News' Jake Tapper Reports: Political junkies of any stripe may enjoy a particular excerpt in Sen. John McCain's, R-Ariz., "major address" on Iraq this morning at the Virginia Military Institute: the Arizona Republican's sly, even devious mention of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.
According to his prepared remarks, McCain will say "When the President vetoes, as he should, the bill that refuses to support General Petraeus' new plan, I hope Democrats in Congress will heed the advice of one of their leading candidates for President, Senator Obama, and immediately pass a new bill to provide support to our troops in Iraq without substituting their partisan interests for those of our troops and our country."
Last week Obama was vilified by liberal "netroots" activists for telling the Associated Press that once President Bush vetoes the troop funding bill, the Congress should send him up a version that does not contain any language mandating the withdrawal of U.S. troops because no lawmaker "wants to play chicken with our troops."
Seethed the popular liberal blog DailyKos,"Instead of threatening Bush with even more restrictions and daring him to veto funding for the troops out of pique, Barack just surrendered to him." Obama's comments were singled out by his Democratic opponents, with Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, and former Sen. John Edwards, D-NC, stating they disagreed with Obama's position.
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Going off memory here, but I think the M&P 9c is closer to the size of a Glock 19 than a 26. The G26 is smaller.
Personally, I do not see how the M&P trigger safety is a safety at all. Anything that catches the lower edge of the trigger can cause the trigger to get pulled. With the trigger-within-a-trigger design used by Glock (and many others) it would take something getting all the way inside the trigger guard for the same thing to happen.
In the end, you need to try them out at the range if at all possible. You really won't be able to tell which you like better until you actually run them.


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Walk for Life West Coast backed by popular Baptist preacher, Dr. Kingĺs niece
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (Catholic San Francisco) - The Walk for Life West Coast, the annual march against abortion that has drawn thousands of demonstrators to San Francisco every January since 2005, plays a growing role in Americaĺs debate over the rights of the unborn, says a nationally known Protestant pastor who has been an ally of Catholic pro-life leaders from the outset of the event.
ôIn an area that is more or less perceived as the bastion of all liberal thought, we find here a movement growing that one would deem to be conservative,ö Childress told Catholic San Francisco. ôI would just call it righteous.ö
ĹItĺs good for the countryĺ
Childress, who is active in the pro-life movement nationally, said the San Francisco march is his favorite pro-life action. He said it is diverse, touches many denominations and is nonpartisan.
ôItĺs good for the country,ö he said. ôI think itĺs good for the people to see what the pro-life movement is. Itĺs the most maligned movement in America. The perception it has among Americans isnĺt what it truly is. These are some of the dearest people who are very humble, who truly want to reach out to all mothers in order to save their children.ö
Childress said the pro-life movement is ôoften viewed as a tool of the Republican Party.ö He added: ôWhen you go to San Francisco, you donĺt get that.ö
The march, which is held on the Saturday closest to anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Courtĺs 1973 Roe vs. Wade ruling legalizing abortion, begins at Justin Herman Plaza at 11 a.m. and ends at Marina Green, where a mariachi band will perform and vendors will offer snacks and drinks. Organizers predict 20,000 people will participate. The first walk in 2005 drew 7,000 pro-life demonstrators and 3,000 opposing the eventĺs message. The 2006 and 2007 walks attracted 15,000 and 20,000 respectively, with smaller groups of counter-demonstrators.
Alveda King heads guest speakers
Alveda King, the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., will help lead this yearĺs walk. In addition to her and Childress, other speakers will include abortion survivor Gianna Jessen; Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life; and Jesse Romero, radio personality and Catholic lay evangelist. According to planners, Eduardo Ver├ístegui, the star of the movie ôBella,ö has also been invited.
The West Coast walk precedes the 35th national March for Life, which will be held in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Jan 22. That event will include a rally on the National Mall, a march to the Supreme Court and meetings with members of Congress.
In a Jan. 1 post on the Priests for Life blog, Father Pavone noted that 2008 is an election year and called for ômassive efforts to register pro-life voters, to distribute the clear teaching of the Church (and of common sense ) about the absolute priority of the right to life as the issue in any and every election, and a massive get-out-the-vote drive when voting time starts.ö
Childress said the presidential race is not something he intends to dwell on in his remarks at the West Coast walk.
ôI focus more on the conscience of America,ö he said. ôWhen that is pricked, we will see a change.ö
Critical pro-life issues at stake
This yearĺs walk comes at a time when California pro-life advocates are gathering signatures for a possible November initiative on family notification of a minorĺs pending abortion. The proposed initiative, called Sarahĺs Law, or the Child and Teen Safety Stop Predators Act of 2008, would require a doctor to notify a parent, or, in case of parental abuse, another adult family member of an unemancipated minor 48 hours before performing an abortion on her.
The Walk for Life West Coast culminates a series of local pro-life events marking the 35th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade.
The 21st annual interfaith memorial service for abortion victims will be held at St. Maryĺs Cathedral on Friday, Jan. 18, at 7:30 p.m. Father Pavone will speak along with Elder Walter Hoye II of Progressive Missionary Baptist Church in Berkeley. Representatives of 40 or more pro-life groups will place roses on a table at the bottom of the altar to remember unborn children who have been aborted.
The theme of the memorial service is ôThe Infant in My Womb Leaped for Joy,ö a reference to the Gospel story of the pregnant Elizabethĺs experience of the Holy Spirit in the presence of Mary.
From 8 p.m. that Friday evening to 7 the next morning, an all-night adoration will be held at Sts. Peter and Paul Church in North Beach.
The Walk for Life West Coast website is www.walkforlifewc.com.
This story was made available to Catholic Online by permission of Catholic San Francisco (www.catholic-sf.org),official newspaper of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, Calif.
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Patch 3.3.3 PTR: What the Vitality change means for warriors {WoW}
Feb 25th 2010 1:21PM thanks for reading or not.
I have said warriors are hydrids in my post. If the part that my warrior should not be doing the same dps as a mage/lock/rogue/hunter was enough of a hint.
And I brought this up because this buff to warriors having much less stam then pallys in high level gear.
And still pallys are most likely the best tank even after this. And they do comparable dps to warriors. And even to go more far they have the biggest heals in raids.
You can't have a hybrid class excell in every roll. It will just make everyone flock to one class like.........idk how it is now? How on most servers pallys make up around 12-16% of the player population at 80? Even more then the Dk's that start at level 56 when leaving the level area. Hell it is almost impossible to do a 10 man without 2 pallys in it. Just because they are the most used class.
And this is why you can not make hybrids excel too high. However this could of been a plan from blizzard to make pallys a powerful force in lich king. Where pallys are known to be stronger against the undead and against a pally that went against the order.
If anything it is most likely a great idea to make pallys a strong force during a expansion. On a lore point of view. Game wise it is not smart at all.
Hell maybe in Cata. shaman's become OP all of a sudden? And it will fit the lore perfectly.
Patch 3.3.3 PTR: What the Vitality change means for warriors {WoW}
Feb 25th 2010 1:17AM In short.
If a pally did more dps then a warlock. The game is partly broken
The warlocks only roll is dps. Whats the point of being a lock if a class that can tank/heal/dps is doing better then your one roll.
I understand that they are trying to work out a hybrid tax. But the numbers are not balanced at all. Sadly the hybrid tax should be more then 5%.
The game has serious balance issues. Mostly because of qq for a hybrid class doing less damage in raids.
In all honestly my warrior should never be able to dps close to the amount a mage/hunter/lock/rogue and put out. Or should any other class.
The margin has to be bigger to maintain balance
Patch 3.3.3 PTR: What the Vitality change means for warriors {WoW}
Feb 25th 2010 1:10AM mmmmm mmm
Man this is good. About time also....
Most tanks are measured by how much health they got. And well....pallys with the 14% more stam always towered over warriors with a little 6%
Plus in all honestly on a lore point of view. Aren't warriors supposed to have more endurance then pallys?
Even in D and D settings warrior arch types are supposed to be the guys having the most endurance.
And in D and D history pallys have always been a support class. That is till 4th edition when they can be a defender.
But even then they are no where near the power of endurance of a warrior. Mostly for BALANCE issues because the pally is a HYBRID class. And making it excel in even 1 roll compared to others will make it way too op
Maybe blizzard can learn a thing or two about dungeons and dragons. In short(actually make a hybrid tax exist maybe?)
Making hybrids excel in any 1 roll is a no no
WoW Moviewatch: Bad Romance by MichelleLynn {WoW}
Feb 23rd 2010 12:31PM Yes....it is so expensive.......
My sister makes online animated videos at times. And all she really needed was a mic and Skype to talk with people. The mic cost a good 20-30 bucks. And Skype is free. So are you serious?
It is called, LETS GET HUGE HITS BECAUSE WE USED A POPULAR SONG FOR OUR VIDEO.
Now ppl that look for lady GAGA on youtube which has anywhere from 5 million hits and more will see this as well
And that is most likely the main reason.....
WoW Moviewatch: Bad Romance by MichelleLynn {WoW}
Feb 22nd 2010 2:15PM Oh look.....
Another Blood elf music video with mediocre music timing
The Care and Feeding of Warriors: Threatening {WoW}
Feb 19th 2010 7:30PM To Sleutel
I think you failed to see my point.
I am able to collect threat. And if I wanted to AOE tank like butter and actually do more dps then most pure dps classes in trash pulls I would do a different tree.
My point is the warrior should not have to count on so many different sets of armor to do the same job other tanks classes can do with their own 1 set of armor. And we should not have to re glyph just to match the aoe ability of other classes. (make cleave hit 3 targets without a glyph please)
Yes that is a no brainier that those are your best friends but a class should not be so gear dependent. This is why warriors were so overpowered or so weak depending on gear. This is why I as one could raceroll everything in vanilla as a warrior with grand marshal gear.
And it is also why it is the worst class with not so top end gear.
Sorry if you faield to see the main point
Ghostcrawler says no buff to Beast Mastery hunter pet damage {WoW}
Feb 19th 2010 7:18PM I think blizzard should be more concerned in how every smart hunter has a wolf......
IDK.....maybe make its ability given to all pets of the same tree?
That way hunters don't have to stick with a wolf for max dps so we can see some different pets in raids and cities.
Ghostcrawler says no buff to Beast Mastery hunter pet damage {WoW}
Feb 19th 2010 7:14PM Mages have been faceroll since day one in both pvp/pve......nothing new here
>Raided with a mage in vanilla and BC. Got bored of the faceroll in lich king
The Care and Feeding of Warriors: Threatening {WoW}
Feb 19th 2010 4:13PM As I get more geared it becomes much harder to tank heroics
I just don't get enough rage at all. They hit me like pansey's and I don't get enough rage.
I start wearing some dps plate gear to help me out but its not cutting it. And too be honest I don't think this was the design for warrior AOE tanking.
Actually it seems like we were not meant to AOE tank and it was put in at the last minute.
I am still able to keep threat but just barely with great dps with me. I shouldn't have to wear dps plate and to have 2 prot specs to aoe/single tank at full strength. (And I don't)
Ya we may be the most popular tanks, but thats no reason not to buff us. People will always play warriors. Been a warrior since vanilla and tried every class at 80. Nothing comes close to the feel/effort it takes to be great as a warrior.
Hell I don't even play my 80 frost mage anymore for pvp because of how faceroll it is.
Bottom line blizzard should stop looking at charts and just make things at equal grounding.
The OverAchiever: Dungeon and raid titles, Part 2 {WoW}
Feb 18th 2010 6:20PM If you didn't know leroy Jenkins was set up and fake.
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2. Ask questions, address concerns, and offer advice about how your baby is:
Feeding. Your baby might be going longer between feedings now. Feeding should still be on demand (when your baby is hungry), but you may notice a predictable schedule developing. Keep in mind that your baby may have periods when he or she wants to eat more. Most babies this age will breastfeed about eight times in a 24-hour period or drink about 26-28 ounces (780-840 ml) of formula a day.
Peeing and pooping. Babies should have several wet diapers a day and tend to have fewer poopy diapers. Breastfed babies' stools should be soft and may be slightly runny. Formula-fed babies' stools tend to be a little firmer, but should not be hard.
Sleeping. Your baby will probably begin to stay awake for longer periods and be more alert during the day, sleeping more at night. Waking up at night to feed is normal.
Developing. By 2 months, it's common for many babies to:
There's a wide range of normal, and children develop at different rates. Talk to your doctor if you're concerned about your child's development.
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4. Update immunizations. Immunizations can protect infants from serious childhood illnesses, so it's important that your baby receive them on time. Immunization schedules can vary from office to office, so talk to your doctor about what to expect.
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On the occasion of four blogs popping up on The New Yorker site, over at Radar Charles Kaiser interviews one of the magazine's first bloggers, Hendrik Hertzberg. In the interview, we learn lots of things about Hertzberg, among them that the man is a master of the Southern Put-Down — that charming affect Southerners have of sandwiching a big insult in between two compliments (for example: "Shirley is so pretty. Dumb as a stump, but cute as a button!"). And he's not even Southern!
Kaiser points out Rick has worked for three iterations of the magazine, William Shawn's, Tina Brown's, and David Remnick's. When asked which one he thinks is best, he kisses up to the boss, then adds that Wallace Shawn's version had "A lot of dreck. Along with the great stuff. Some of it was not only long, but bad. Quite a lot of it, actually. But the highs were very high. It was like a pre-Zoloft world."
When asked what he reads for fun, he says: "Above all, the New York Review of Books — that's in a class by itself for me. And then the New Yorker. Then, dropping down a little bit, I read the New Republic. It's very good."
The Washington Post's op-ed page has "a few pearls amidst the shit." Hm. He actually forgot the first nicety there. Oh, and he went on: "The Post's editorial page has been pathetic. Really pathetic. There are still a few twitches left in it — every once in a while it takes on some egregious violation of civil liberties — but for the most part it's just pitiful." Now that's just mean.
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So I have an oatmeal stout in the primary right now. Since it needs some extra conditioning time because of the roasted grains (per LHBS), I was planning on leaving in primary for 2 weeks, and then secondary for 3-4 weeks, and then bottle. Will this pose any problems with viable yeast available for the carbonation of the beer? I've heard mixed opinions about this, so just wondering? Thanks! Jason
Primary 1: ESB Primary 2: Empty Secondary 1: Empty Secondary 2: Empty Secondary 3: Empty Bottled: Nothing! Up next: Common ESB, porter, probably some Belgian
You should have no trouble with that at all. I usually leave my oatmeal stout in secondary for 1.5 months and then bottle. I don't add yeast and have no problems with carbonation.
Thanks! I was pretty sure it would be ok, but I would hate to go through the hassle of bottling and it not be carbed when I opened it! Jason
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Hotel Krishna is located in central New Delhi, about 1 km from Connaught Place and Karol Bagh. The hotel offers free Wi-Fi, a restaurant, an airport shuttle and free parking.Each air-conditioned guestroom at Krishna Hotel is equipped with a flat-screen cable TV, tea/coffee maker and a minibar. Private bathrooms and 24-hour room service are provided.The hotel features a tour desk, laundry services and car rentals. Other facilities include ticketing services and a business centre. Guests can dine at the hotel's on-site restaurant.Hotel Krishna is approximately 14 km from Indira Gandhi International Airport. New Delhi Metro Station is a 10-minute away.
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HELENA - Michael Hilton, the California con man whose shadowy company once aspired to run Hardin's never-opened jail, has turned over four pieces of art to be auctioned off to satisfy a $700,000 fraud judgment against him.
One piece, which Hilton described under oath Oct. 30 as a portrait by his own hand, turned out to be a framed poster of Catalina Island bearing a sticker from a popular Los Angeles furniture store.
Hilton, who just weeks ago rolled into Hardin in a Mercedes SUV touting plans of building a large private law enforcement training center with the help of a larger parent company he never identified, testified in a California court last week that the artworks are his only assets.
The Montenegro-born Hilton owes $1.1 million in fraud judgments in California, including $700,000 to contractor Rick Earnhart. Cris Armenta, Earnhart's lawyer, examined Hilton's assets under oath Oct. 30 in an effort to ascertain if he had anything of value that could be sold to pay back his debt.
Hilton testified he was broke and that his company, American Private Police Force, had an overdrawn bank account and had lost its office for failing to pay rent. His only assets, Hilton said, were four paintings, including two of his own works: One of Mother Theresa and a second portrait erroneously reported to be a self-portrait. He also said he had two silk-screened prints by California artist Rick Garcia; one was a tiger, the other a leopard.
Hilton failed to produce the works all week. On Thursday, Armenta sent a courier to his Santa Barbara home to fetch the artworks. They were as described, Armenta said, but the portrait of Hilton's own creation turned out to be a framed poster, evidently not painted by Hilton, which bore a sticker from a chain furniture store in Los Angeles called Z Gallerie.
"We don't know if he intended to give this to us, or it if was a mistake," Armenta said.
Armenta said she will now meet with Earnhart to determine if the works have any value and if they can be auctioned.
Hilton and his American Private Police Force were the latest chapter in the long story of Hardin's Two Rivers Detention Center. Built on speculation by the economic development arm of the city of Hardin, the 464-bed lock-up has never opened. The $27 million in revenue bonds sold to build the jail have since gone into default.
Two Rivers Authority leaders announced in September they had inked a deal with Hilton to open the jail. The welcome news quickly turned to suspicion after questions arose about Hilton's criminal past and he refused to answer questions about his young company's backing.
Media reports and Hilton's own testimony Friday revealed that many of the promises Hilton made to Hardin officials were shams.